host: congressman jeffreys, your reaction? guest: i think the president is correct that we should confront of overall health of our economy, including the reality of the social insurance programs such as medicare and social face in that they terms of the future. and with respect to medicare in particular, you do have an aging population. you do have an increasing number of senior citizens from the baby boom generation who will be living longer than seniors in the past. life expectancy has increased, that is a good thing. and you do have the potential that health care costs will increase over the long term, although i should note that over the last several years the rate of growth of health care has been slow, which is a good thing. one of the reasons why many of should notthat we dramatically alter medicare, certainly in the way that the house of gop has proposed in terms of turning it into a voucher program in 10 years, but it is reasonable to consider some adjustments that can be made to medicare that don't adversely impact